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Romney launching more false attacks

I don’t know what it is, but people just aren’t warming up to Mitt Romney. A new Washington Post-ABC News poll indicates Romney’s support, even among Republicans, appears to be a mile wide, but an inch deep -- at best. In other words, many of the people who support Romney only support him ...

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Tennis shoes, it seems, have always been essential wearing apparel for boys and girls.I found an ad in the May 23, 1930 edition of a local newspaper that said that the Nelson’s store on Pittsburgh Street in Connellsville was selling boys and girls tennis shoes for a mere 69 cents.By contrast, ...

Romney fails miserably on overseas tour

I feel bad for Mitt Romney. He had hoped to go on a whirlwind foreign policy photo-op, take a few bows on the world stage, and sell it all to potential voters back home. He failed miserably.He’d an easy enough task. All he had to do was slip into a well-pressed Giorgio Armani, stand next to a ...

Bachmann up to her old tricks

In recent weeks, we’ve “learned” that dark forces are taking over the U.S. government from within.Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) says so. So it must be true.Or, Bachmann is at it again – finding bloodthirsty anti-American ghouls where there are none.I suspect the latter.The three-term ...

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It’s always a good time to honor excellence, even if that excellence is a little late in being honored.That was the case on July 18, 1955, when the Uniontown Evening Standard carried the front-page story about the championship trophy finally being given to the band of Uniontown’s VFW Post ...

Welcome to the majors, Mitt

Mitt Romney doesn’t know what hit him. He’d sucker punched his way through the Republican primaries, flush with cash, and eager to take on the sitting president. But something got in the way. It’s called Team Obama.Unlike the skeleton campaign staffs of Bachmann, Gingrich and Santorum, ...